دانلود کتاب The Classic Short Story: 1870-1925. Theory of a Genre

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Table of Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
1. Paroxystic Characterisation......Page 22
Extremes in the fantastic short story......Page 33
2. Antithetic Structure......Page 36
Secondary tensions......Page 44
Editing antithetic tension: Maupassant and James......Page 47
3. Ending with a Twist......Page 52
The “twist-in-the-tail” and antithetic tension......Page 54
The “Twist-in-the-tail” and retroreading......Page 56
“Open” texts and tension......Page 61
4. The Tools of Brevity......Page 64
Preconstructed material......Page 65
Character types......Page 68
Recurring characters and empty characters......Page 73
Tight focus......Page 75
Permanence of types......Page 78
Hypotyposis and schematisation......Page 82
Short stories, sensational news items and serials......Page 84
The short story: privileged object of narratology......Page 86
6. Exoticism in the Classic Short Story......Page 92
The role of the press......Page 93
Exotic subjects......Page 95
The constraints of the newspapers......Page 101
Exceptions to the rule......Page 107
7. Short Stories and the Travelogue......Page 110
Praise of nature, criticism of culture......Page 111
From vision to judgement: guidelines for description......Page 119
8. A Foreign World......Page 126
An explicit distance......Page 128
The use of types: subversion or immersion?......Page 133
“Deceptive representations” of reality......Page 136
The great man......Page 140
“We are simply the case”: James and abstract entities......Page 141
Reading at face value: the double distance......Page 143
9. Dialogue and Character Discreditation......Page 146
Direct and indirect speech: Verga’s novel
versus short stories......Page 149
Dialect and distancing......Page 152
Foreign terms......Page 156
10. The Narrator, the Reflector and the Reader......Page 162
Unreliable narrators and reflectors......Page 165
Reliable narrators and reflectors......Page 168
The short story with a dilemma......Page 174
Readers’ emotional response to the classic short story......Page 181
12. Conclusion to Part III: Are Dostoevsky’s Short Stories Polyphonic?......Page 192
Epilogue: Beyond the Classic Short Story......Page 196
Lengthy stories: the long Yvette after the brief Yveline......Page 197
Fantastic tales: the deconstruction of the self......Page 199
Authors at a crossroads......Page 200
Bibliography......Page 206
Index......Page 216